Garment-supporter.



No- 845,943. PATENTED MAR. 5,1907.

H. E. GIFFORD.

GARMENT SUPPORTER.

. APPLICATION FILED AUG.24,1905.

WITNESSES. INVENTUQ UNITED SATES Prtllllllilil HARRY E. orrrom'i, on NEW BEDFORD,,MASSACHUSETTS ennnenwsoeeosrssi No. 84%,943. Specification of Letters Patent. iratentefl March 5. 315967 implication filed August 24,1905 Serial No. 276,546

'1'!) all IU/MIHI 1ft 1mm (o/warn: i In the accompanying drawing the vari u Be it known that I, HARRY E. Grrronn, a i parts of the garter are clearly shown, in i citizen of the United States, residing at New Which- 4 Bedford, in the county of Bristol and State of a represents a hand of nonelastic mete- 5 Massachusetts, have invented new and use rial; b and 6, metal hooks to receive the ends 60 ful Improvements in Garment-Supporters, of of bend a, hook i) being closed to prevent its which the following is a specification, referi being readily unhoolred, yet easily movable once being had to the accompanying druwl onthe eye 2, while hook c is open s'iiihcient to ing. be easily unhoolred from spring-arm k.

My present invention has relation to gnrd is the ordinary buckle for adjusting the 65 tors and is shown as supporting mens short l size of garter-band. I stocking. l g and h are spring-arms having a resilient It is well known that nearly all garters are action, the free end of arm 9 terminating in dependent upon ehstic in the band and cord an eye e and the free end of arm i1, forminge I 5 for retainhw their position upon the leg. It circular sweep :i'ron'nd eye e and terminating gm is also known that elastic rapidly loses its .111 a small cyof. I resiliency through naturaldecay, which proc- At 't the engaged ends of siringerms g ess is hastened by the warmth and perspiraand h are twisted'one around t e'other by e tion of the leg; The,stretching of the elastic single turn, the wire below the turn forming s and decrease of its resiliency allows the/band stocking-grip, of which 7' is the loop portion, 75 in the ordinary garter to drop or sag upon the below which the wires are parallel and in conleg, and therefore does not keep the stocking tact between the returinbend' Z and theup as intended. It is also a fact that the shoulders k and In. I complete bending of the leg by the bond, the In the practice of my invention 1 taike e band and cord, or the band end metel parts, piece of spring-wire and form it into the de- 80 as the case may be, the metal parts crossing sired shape by bending it at the center into at e Joint too nedr the band, interferes with a sharp return-berm, Z, which brings the two the flow of blood in the veins and arteries of ends of the wire parallel and in contact. At the leg. 1 c and 7c 1 bend the two ends outwardly, then 3 It is the purpose of my invention to iroinwardly in opposite directions, and form an 85 vide a garter in which all of these objections angular or circular loop- 3', above which the have been overcome and. in which elastic wires are crossed and twisted one around the does not form a part thereof, which has no other by a single turn, as shown at 'i, and short-lived materials in its make-up, which, from which point the wires are extended in having an improved form of pendant, does the form of s contracted-ti shape, forming go not com letely encircle the leg in or near the two resilient spring-arms g and h, the former line of tl ie band by crossing of bond, cord, or terminating in a large eye 6, while the letter metal parts, thereby allowing perfectly free terminates in a circular sweep around the circulation of blood in Veins and arteries of eye c with the small eye f atits end. 4 the leg. The stockin being passed through the 5 It is a further or ose of my invention to loop 7' is pulled into the grip between Zr and 7c, provide a non-ellistlc garter with a metal thereby slightly separating the wires at thnt pendant in which the stocking-grip and the oint. The wires being 111 contest at 'b, the resilient srms for engaging the ends of' the rec ends'oi arms 9 and h are forced toward bend the mode of one plece of spring-wire of each other when the grip is opened'by the re improved form, simple in construction, end stocking, and in opposition to this movement devoid of objectionable features present in the spreading of tie arms 9 and Itwill 11'}? other garters of like type, such as the possicreese the grip u on the stocking. Therebility of twisting or'reversing of the pendent, fore, the harder t e stoclnng pulls upon the I the crossing of the wires forming the' stockgarter the stronger the grip. I The garter m ing-grip, the crossing of the Wires too near the aving anon-elastic bandyrnal tes 1t d fficult' 3 ends of the band, cnusin too much pressure to release the same If the hook is held by the u on the leg between the bend ends, and eye in 'the pendent, should both arms tereliminating spring-coils and frictional bendininete as does arm g, for which'resson I hoveformed the, free'end of. arm it in e circular no holders.

sweepnnaliing it easy to nnliook the arm by placing; the linger at lll( snmll eye f and ringing the ni'lnoutwardly. 'llnsnnproved SAMPP also allows u more free action of the I be mereused or dnnnnslied by spreading or pendant perpendienlarly upon the leg on aeennnt of the longer sweep of the book upon the um; 74 than were ll confined as is liook I;

in eye 1.

Hm'inq ilnzs fully deseribed my invention. what 1 claim :is'new and desire to'seeure by Letters Patent, is

dependin grip at one angle of said loop having parallel walls. two arms lormed 1n the opposile angle of said loop by twisting said in a llose-supporter made of a single pieee of S})1'll1 /1T, the eombnmtlon with a renetionar i-oop formed by bendim said wire, a

arms whereby the grip in tlie'pendant may closing said arms, and a non-elast ie band, substantially as deseribed.

In lesliinony whereof l allix my signature in the presenee of two witnesses.

nAnm' n. GIFFORD. 

